Trump says U.S. did not pay any of the $2 million that North Korea sought for Otto Warmbier’s care

Posted on AllSides April 26th, 2019
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President Trump said Friday that the United States did not pay any money to North Korea, which had issued a $2 million bill for the hospice care of American Otto Warmbier, the comatose University of Virginia student sent home from Pyongyang in 2017.

“No money was paid to North Korea for Otto Warmbier, not two Million Dollars, not anything else,” Trump said in a morning tweet in which he suggested he has taken a different approach to hostage negotiations than his predecessor.

Trump reiterated the point two hours later as...

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